Human Rights and Democracy: An ongoing and never ending individual and collective learning process. An introduction to the Swiss Helsinki Committee Youth Seminar by Andreas Gross (Zurich/St-Ursanne)

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No quick fix: Everybody (Citizens, MP’s, administ., society) needs and gets the time they need :

A Referendum is a process over 2 - 4 years:

1 year for the citizens, 1 year for Gov+Parl., 1/2 a year for the Public debate and campaign !

In order to share the power and not to be exclusive and make the system responsive you should ask more than 1% of the electorates signatures for a Referendum and not more than 2% for a popular proposition (“Initiative”)

New hierarchy (Prof.Alfred de Zayas): Right to life (Civil and political, health and food, clean water and enviroment), Right to it’s own identity (education, language, religion, family, privacy) Right to one’s homeland (selfdetermination, no ethnic discrimination) Right to peace (Freedom from fear and war)

Getting inspired by the European Human Rights Convention (EHRC) with it’s individual right to bring your state to a international Court, but globalize and enlarge it (Non-state-powers, more then the classical freedom rights...)

Make a global constitution which gives to every person a status without founding a world-state and destroying the citizenship in and the nation-state itself.

Build a second/third chamber of MP’s/NGOs in the UN-General Assembly, in order to give the “People of the world” really a representation...